The Wiz Live! premieres tonight, featuring an impressive star-studded cast of greats like Mary J. Blige as the Wicked Witch of the West (pictured above), Queen Latifah as the Wiz (!!!), Uzo Aduba as Glinda -- the list goes on and on! And yet, of course, racists are complaining.

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Eddie Redmayne has joined the cast of New Line Cinema's Road to Oz.

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The cover also reads, "Death to the Flag, Long Live the South."

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You can build anything with LEGO! And that includes a machine to efficiently extract all of the world's money. All of it. Say hello to LEGO's new toy-based video game, LEGO Dimensions.

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According to Deadline, this morning NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt announced the network had finalized a deal for the rights to The Wiz, to be produced by NBC's The Sound of Music and Peter Pan executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

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Hot Toys' Little Groot is a mere $44.99 (well, mere compared to their Star-Lord figurine), with expected shipment in January.

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Close your eyes and picture a witch. You probably see one of two things: A wrinkled, gaunt old woman dressed all in black… or Willow Rosenberg.

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Loving grandmother, wife, and Wizard of Oz fan Johanna R. Scarpitti had some sweetly unique requests for how she be remembered.

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It's 4:00 on a Friday. You're still at work, with the glorious specter of the weekend hanging over your head. Mentally, you're maaaybe not quite as present as your boss would like you to be. You click play. Your life changes. You change. You will never be the same again.

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Wendy McKee has been getting a lot of attention lately for her kitty cosplay and does this surprise us? Not in the least. “I would probably be considered a crazy cat lady,” she told TODAY.com. “My house seems to be the place that people drop off cats that they don’t want anymore.”

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Craig Davison has a series of paintings where he depicts kids in pretend play, and the character's they're emulating. The result is pretty adorable. Many more can be found on his site.

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There's also some news on the peacock network’s upcoming Wizard of Oz show. No, it’s not the Game of Thrones-y one. Or the medical drama. Or Syfy’s post-apocalyptic version.

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...at least that's what you'd think if you looked at McDonalds' line of Adventure Time Happy Meal toys, which has only male characters and is marketed "for boys," while the Paul Frank monkeys are "for girls." Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, Lumpy Space Princess, etc. must have been figments of my imagination this whole time. (Serious Eats)

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Warner Bros' grown-up Wizard of Oz series has landed like a house in a tornado at Lifetime. 

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As much as I don't care for post-conversion 3D or IMAX in general, I will definitely be seeing The Wizard of Oz when it's re-released September 20th. Of course I'd go and see it just as quickly if it were being showed in it's original format but after watching this video showing the process of how it's all done, I'm looking forward to seeing the results. (via Movies.com) Are you following The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, & Google +?

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First Syfy puts a post-apocalyptic The Wizard of Oz in the pipeline, and now CBS is doing their own version as a medical drama. If someone doesn't get around to doing an outer space-set Wizard sci-fi comedy I will be sorely disappointed.

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John Barrowman, international treasure. (Tor.com)

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